平埔族為原居住於臺灣平原地區的原住民族的統稱，自十七世紀上半葉之後逐漸漢化，目前其精神及物質文明多已不存。本文透明清及荷人的文獻資料，歸納管理平埔族聚落及建築的一般特徵，以期彌補臺灣建築史之不足。 透過文獻資料可知，平埔族落落具有以下各種共同特徵：(1)採取小集村形式，(2)定期性遷移，(3)由原野、田園及居住區所組成。 平埔族的建築大體上以大肚溪為界，以北多為干闌式建築，以南多為要臺式建築。平埔族建築以滿足其物質性需求為主，其建築呈現有機式組合，地坪均高於地面公尺以上，屋身向外傾斜。

The P’ing-p’u Tribe is the general term used to describe all the aborigines living on the plains of Taiwan. Since the early seventeenth century when a multitude of Han people immigrated from the other side of the Taiwan Strait, their spiritual and material civilization had gradually been taken away and replaced. This essay aims to explore the general characteristics of the settlement and architecture of the P’ing-p’u Tribe recorded in historical documents from 17th to 18th centuries, and therefore make up the incompleteness of the history of Taiwanese architecture. (1)The settlements were in small nucleate form; (2)the tribes changed their sites regularly; and (3)their settlements were composed of hunting fields, agricultural fields and an residential area. The house of the P’ing-p’u Tribe have two major forms: the high-platform house in the southern part of the Ta-tu river, and the pile-dwelling in the northern part of the river. It seems that the P’ing-p’u Tribe constructed their dwellings mainly to fulfill material needs. Their dwellings shared three basic principles: the house compound were in organic form; the house platform was built above one meter; and the houses’ longer sides of the walls inclined upward.